GB Takeaway — Airgo SoS Sector Report

Food & Beverage · 17 brands · trailing 12 months · GB market

Updated August 2026 · data through 2 Aug 2026

This is the living Share of Search picture for the GB Takeaway sector — each brand's slice of total search interest, the leading indicator of where market share is heading. It tracks 17 brands over the trailing twelve months and refreshes every month. Just Eat currently leads with 43.8% average Share of Search in a concentrated field.

Leader — Just Eat
36.0%-2.31pp MoM
Share of Search, Aug 2026
Concentration (HHI)
2,299-521 vs 13 mo ago
concentrated field · top-3 hold 82.7%
Biggest YoY mover
HelloFresh
+10.35pp vs same month last year
Notable spikes
1
explained search spikes, last 6 months

Share of search over time

Five years of weekly Share of Search for the current leaders. Just Eat sets the pace, with its nearest challenger Deliveroo 23.9 points back. Click any brand in the legend to isolate it, hover for the exact weekly reading, or drag the slider beneath the chart to zoom into a single period. Pins mark statistically unusual spikes from the last six months — hover one for the likely cause.

The last 12 months of weekly Share of Search per brand — the current value, the shape of the year, and the gap to the brand's own 12-month average.

Just Eat36.0%
-7.80pp vs 12-mo avg
Deliveroo20.8%
+0.89pp vs 12-mo avg
Uber Eats17.7%
-1.35pp vs 12-mo avg
HelloFresh15.7%
+8.85pp vs 12-mo avg
Gousto2.8%
-0.84pp vs 12-mo avg
Too Good To Go2.2%
+0.25pp vs 12-mo avg
Foodhub1.0%
-0.18pp vs 12-mo avg
Amazon Fresh0.8%
-0.06pp vs 12-mo avg
Abel & Cole0.5%
-0.06pp vs 12-mo avg
Gorillas0.4%
-0.07pp vs 12-mo avg
Mindful Chef0.4%
-0.11pp vs 12-mo avg
Wolt0.8%
+0.33pp vs 12-mo avg

Current standings (last 12m)

Just Eat holds 43.8% of sector search, with 5 brands clearing the 2% mark. Toggle between the twelve-month average and the latest month to see who is over- or under-indexing right now.

Year-over-year movers (last 12m)

Versus Aug 2025, HelloFresh has gained the most ground (+10.35pp), while Just Eat has given up the most (-12.50pp). The split between green and red is the clearest read on where attention is migrating within the sector.

Market concentration (last 5y)

Over the last five years the Takeaway sector's concentration has loosened. It currently averages an HHI of 2,803 (concentrated), with the top three brands holding 82.7% of search interest between them.

How to read HHI. The Herfindahl–Hirschman Index sums the squared Share of Search of every brand in the sector, so it climbs when attention concentrates in a few names and falls when it is spread widely. As a rule of thumb: under 1,500 is competitive, 1,500–2,500 moderately concentrated, and above 2,500 highly concentrated. At 2,803 this sector is concentrated — for scale, a single brand owning all search would score 10,000, while twenty equally sized brands would score 500. The gold line tracks the combined share of the three largest brands.

Growth–share momentum map (last 12m)

Each dot is a brand, placed by its average Share of Search (horizontal) against its average week-over-week momentum (vertical). The four quadrants separate the leaders pulling away from the vulnerable incumbents and the rising challengers. HelloFresh is both large and growing (top-right); Getir is a smaller challenger on the rise (top-left). Hover any point for its exact figures.

Seasonality by month (5y average)

Each cell is a brand's average Share of Search in that calendar month over the last five years, indexed to the brand's own average (100). Warm cells are a brand's hot months, cool cells its quiet ones. The strongest seasonal peak belongs to Mindful Chef in January (index 178); the deepest trough is HelloFresh in December (index 57).

Notable search spikes (last 6m)

The largest statistically unusual jumps or drops in a brand's weekly Share of Search over the last 6 months, each paired with the most likely cause. A spike is flagged when a brand's search interest moves several standard deviations from its recent norm; the magnitude is the size of that move against the brand's own baseline. Direction shows whether interest rose or fell.

BrandPeak weekMoveMagnitudeSeverityWhat happened
Just Eat22 Mar 2026▲ Rose+35%artifactMother's Day meal order surge

Brand correlations (last 12m)

How brands' weekly Share of Search moved relative to one another over the last 12 months. A positive correlation means two brands rise and fall together — a shared audience, consideration set, or category-level demand. A negative correlation means that when one gains search attention the other tends to lose it — a sign of direct substitutes competing for the same interest.

Move together — strongest positive

These brands tend to rise and fall in tandem, pointing to a shared audience or a category-level wave lifting them at the same time.

BrandBrandCorrelation (r)Strength
HelloFreshWolt+0.71Strong
GoustoOddbox+0.66Moderate
WoltHome Chef+0.64Moderate
GoustoMindful Chef+0.59Moderate
GorillasJiffy+0.57Moderate
HelloFreshHome Chef+0.49Moderate
Just EatFoodhub+0.47Moderate
Too Good To GoGorillas+0.47Moderate

Move apart — strongest negative

When one of these brands gains search share the other tends to give it up — the clearest read on direct substitutes. Note that Share of Search is a slice of a fixed 100%, so a little negative correlation is structural (strongest between the largest brands); similarly sized pairs are the more telling substitution signals.

BrandBrandCorrelation (r)Strength
Just EatUber Eats-0.50Moderate
Just EatHelloFresh-0.49Moderate
FoodhubWolt-0.46Moderate
HelloFreshAbel & Cole-0.44Moderate
Just EatWolt-0.43Moderate
FoodhubHome Chef-0.36Weak
Abel & ColeWolt-0.35Weak
Just EatHome Chef-0.32Weak

Economic factors (last 3y)

How the sector's overall search interest tracks key macroeconomic indicators. A positive r means search tends to rise as the indicator rises; a negative r means search rises as the indicator falls. A strong correlation can reflect genuine economic sensitivity or simply a shared long-run trend, so weigh the direction against a plausible mechanism.

Economic indicatorCorrelation (r)SignificanceDirection
USD/GBP Exchange Rate-0.50p<0.001Negative
UK Energy CPI-0.43p<0.001Negative
UK Monthly GDP-0.40p<0.001Negative
UK Unemployment Rate-0.35p<0.001Negative
UK CPIH (incl Housing)-0.33p<0.001Negative
UK Interbank Rate+0.33p<0.001Positive
UK CPI (FRED)-0.26p=0.001Negative
UK Leading Indicator (OECD)-0.16p=0.046Negative
UK Consumer Confidence-0.02p=0.851Negative

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Methodology: Share of Search is GTAB-normalised Google Trends data, each brand expressed as a percentage of total sector search interest. 17 Takeaway brands, GB market; standings, movers and momentum cover the trailing 12 months, with five years of history shown for the trend and concentration charts. Updated monthly. © 2026 New Classic Consulting LLC.